Data scientist: A systematic review of the literature

Abstract

The commercial activities of services and production have accumulated plenty of data throughout the years, hence today’s necessity of a professional agent to interpret data, generates information in order to produce valuable results and conclusions. The scope of the current article is to present a systematic review of the literature which main goal was to spot the work and career profile of the so called Data Scientist; realizing that, as a new work field, there are not concretely defined profiles, although knowledge areas are indeed defined, as well as characteristics that are needed to be counted, apart from some technologies that can serve as supporting means for the labor these new technicians do in the IT (Information Technology) area.